HW Bunbury Hand Coloured Etching A Family Picture Circa.1800

HW Bunbury Hand Coloured Etching A Family Picture Circa.1800Henry William Bunbury 1750 1811. Hand coloured etching Circa. 1800. Printed on wove paper slight foxing and old mount staining old patch repairs to centre all to no real detriment. 35. 3 by 25. 1 cms. Sheet. Rare. A satire on portrait painting: a middle aged English couple sit together on a dais, each holding a bird in their hand. Their bored son, dressed as Cupid, is seated on a stool in front of them, yawning. They are being painted by an

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He went on to win a Royal Exhibition award and to study at the Royal College of Art

Appointed Equerry to Duke of York in 1780

43 by 38 cms

Some slight mount staining to no real detriment in my opinion

Von Fray went on to fund he artist’s painting expeditions through the South of France in the years that followed

Isaac Beckett 1652/3-1719 after Sir Peter Lely 1618-1680

It is fair to say that the original painting of Cook has not met with universal acclaim: Beaglehole Cooks biographer states that on first viewing it Mrs Cook exclaimed 'Who is that low villain

general craquelure and varnish discolouration

Italian mid 20th

Century chalk drawing on buff paper

Phil May 1864-1903 Watercolour drawing entitled "Gloom" Signed lower left 23 by 30 cms to mounted image